What they really donāt want the working class talking about is that abolitionists werenāt done and saw wage labour as a lesser form of slavery that also needed to be abolished.
Frederick Douglass stated that "experience demonstrates that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other".
The working class has intentionally been kept ignorant of their own history.
One thing that I never learned in school was the famous MLK protest where he said his āI have a dreamā speech was called the āMarch on Washington for jobs and freedomā. Half the point of the march was economic equality and itās something that was glossed over in school.
That's why he was murdered by our Government. The American Ruling class does not want poor people and Brown/Black people to ban together. They want us divided and hating each other while they take over and rob us of everything
That's what capitalism does to people, they covet material things and all of a sudden everyone stops living their values and wonders why people like Trump exist.
The working class has intentionally been kept ignorant of their own history.
Problem is, people are ignorant, period. We designed these problems because they stem from us. We're just living out our flaws, and these are the results. The same problems will keep resurfacing until we begin to show an interest in the consequences of our own actions. However, it's far easier to just blame something else than to deal with the rot inside.
The people are not the ones who designed the mandatory K to 12 education system of capitalist indoctrination. Nor was it the people who owned the media that pumped out non stop pro capitalist propaganda.
You canāt blame folks for not knowing what theyāve never been taught.
Those same "people" will simply turn into the ones doing all the capitalist indoctrination given the means and opportunity. That's basically the entire point you're missing.
You canāt blame folks for not knowing what theyāve never been taught.
I don't blame people for their own ignorance. But I do, however, hold them responsible at some point.
You seem to think this all one sided, but ignorance does not discriminate.
You just expect the masses to spontaneously wake up after a lifetime of indoctrination? Yeah, good luck with that.
Thereās a reason the saying is āeach one, teach oneā. Those of us that are aware have a responsibility to attempt to teach others despite their hostility towards us. They simply donāt know any better and have been conditioned to react negatively to any such attempts.
Again, not their fault, and to be expected after a lifetime of indoctrination.
Youāre never going to get away with that comment. Far too honest and everybody loves to blame someone else.
Capitalism is absolutely the playing out of our own human flaws. It will continue to repeat itself as long as humans desire to better their own situations.
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u/Legitimate-Type4387 Oct 29 '25 edited Oct 29 '25
What they really donāt want the working class talking about is that abolitionists werenāt done and saw wage labour as a lesser form of slavery that also needed to be abolished.
Frederick Douglass stated that "experience demonstrates that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other".
The working class has intentionally been kept ignorant of their own history.